*** This hymn presents a Christian interpretation of the Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover). When, with the blood of Jesus Christ.midi COMMENTARY In the book Exodus the story of the institution of the first Passover is situated immediately before Israel’s Read More …
*** This hymn gets to grips with the apostle Paul’s difficult argument in chapters nine to eleven of the Letter to the Romans. The music is the first I wrote in the cottage – Y BWTHYN – that became our home Read More …
*** The theme of this hymn is God’s sovereign mercy. We see you, Lord, through mercy’s lens.midi COMMENTARY A heresy has dogged Christian-Jewish relations for two thousand years: that Christians have supplanted Jews in God’s favour, and that God’s covenant Read More …
* This hymn addresses the vexed – and, sadly, enduring – issue of ‘supersessionism’ (the supposition that Christians have supplanted Jews in God’s favour).
*** This hymn is a meditation on the story of Cain and Abel. Out of the ground we hear the cry.midi The tune MORLEYTOM is named in homage to Thomas Morley (1557-c1603), the opening of whose Verse Anthem Out of the deep Read More …